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__Who said our women cannot do the “impossible”!? On Friday (9th February) at 12 noon (Nigeria time) up to 1bn people around the world are expected to watch the Opening Ceremony of the 2018 Winter Olympics in PyeongChang, South Korea. A record number of African athletes will compete, and for Continue Reading →

Join the conversation with special guest James Mwangi, Shivani Siroya, Kamal Bhattacharya and myself at the Tech and Entrepreneurship Town Hall hosted by the Pathways for Prosperity Commission & Kwesé INC in Nairobi Kenya.

__”Let’s get the show on the road!” This Friday in Nairobi is finally the big day! Yes, they’re almost in the elevator… For over a year now, I’ve been talking about choosing two entrepreneurs (one woman and one man) to come work along side me and our #Kwesé team for two weeks Continue Reading →

__What gives me sleepless nights. Congratulations to the 12 #GoGettaz finalists I announced a few days ago at the Abuja Town Hall. At win.kwese.com you’ll see fellow entrepreneurs from the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. There’s another word for these 12 finalists…#JobCreators! By now you know that the Continue Reading →

__Take part in an original Kwesé Inc production! Every type of business has a “raw material.” The better the raw material, the better the output. What is the “raw material” of your own business? Content is the “raw material” of the broadcasting business. When you set up a broadcast business, Continue Reading →

__Super Eagles! Africa’s first team to qualify for 2018 FIFA World Cup™ Kwesé Sports as an official broadcaster of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia™ congratulates Nigeria on its qualification this weekend! The countdown continues (247 days till opening match!) We can’t wait for the games to begin! Kwesé Sports Continue Reading →

__Beyond wow! Over the years I have shared with you how important is the smart use of your most precious resource… your time. In this day and age, with more distractions than ever, you as an entrepreneur really have to look at your day, minute by minute, and make sure Continue Reading →

__Your time, your content, your choice… #BeyondTV ! I’ve written here before about identifying a human need and then working to solve it with your own entrepreneurship and innovation. Sometimes you may also identify a “human want,” for example, to have more choice, convenience, speed, better prices, and a greater selection of Continue Reading →

__One new thing leads to another… Before I get started on this post, let me remind you that the clock is ticking if you want to participate in our $200,000 competition (Go to win.kwese.com). You never know what’s possible unless you try! I remember in 1993 sitting down to develop my Continue Reading →

Have you been doing your homework? I hope so, because today is finally the launch of our Kwesé Inc competition, open to people from anywhere in the world, an opportunity to compete to win a $100,000 investment into your business or not-for-profit organization, and spend two weeks interacting and working Continue Reading →

__When you get knocked down, get back up. Sometimes in life, you get knocked down by something you do not expect, despite all your advance planning and hard work. It can be heartbreaking. In London last week at the IAAF World Championships, a virus knocked several athletes out of their Continue Reading →

__Who will work for me in January? Next week we’ll finally launch the competition to choose two people who will be the inaugural Kwesé Entrepreneur Fellows. Working from the Kwesé offices in Johannesburg, they’ll win an opportunity to interact with me and some of my team on a daily basis. Continue Reading →

__”Start where you are!” Today both my wife and I had the pleasure and honor to speak at the African Philanthropy Forum in Johannesburg hosted by Kwesé and NBA Cares. I told you last week to remember that basketball is not just a game, it’s business. Today you would have Continue Reading →

__Team Africa vs Team World on 5 August! Who can tell me how basketball got started in 1891 and why? What “problem” was out there that someone was trying to solve? You’ll see it’s a very relevant story that I’ve been teaching you here! Here’s a hint: Innovation! The National Continue Reading →

__I want to showcase your business on Kwesé Inc. Over the last twelve months, I’ve spoken a lot about the need for you to use the Internet and mobile phone technology to develop new businesses, as well as to boost an old business. I have also tried to demonstrate our Continue Reading →

__The clock is ticking… are you ready? During the Transform Africa gathering in Kigali a few weeks ago, I took part in an event in which some really, really smart young entrepreneurs were pitching to a group of investors to take equity stakes in their businesses. The show was called Continue Reading →

By now you know that one of my burning passions was always to set up a business that expanded outside my own country. I remember traveling to Namibia in 1990 with a plan to set up a business there. By then I’d been in business for less than five years, Continue Reading →

__ Kwesé Sports wins FIFA World Cup 2018 rights, and NBA game for Africa. Last week I said Kwesé Sports will make a big announcement… Here goes! FIFA, the world governing-body for soccer, has just awarded Kwesé Sports the exclusive free-to-air rights to broadcast the finals of the FIFA World Continue Reading →

__Always look for the “game changer” (Part 3). One of the ways you strengthen your business is to look for opportunities to partner with the best in your game. You’re never too big or too small to look for partners that will fit your needs. When you partner with the Continue Reading →

__Always look for the “game changer” (Part 2). Remember what I’ve written before about the importance of having the right mindset? Always looking for the game changer… that’s a mindset, too! When we were planning to set up Kwesé TV, I asked an expert what he thought would be one Continue Reading →

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About Strive Masiyiwa

MR STRIVE MASIYIWA (b 1961) has been in business since 1986. He first came to international prominence when he fought a landmark constitutional legal battle for 5 years in the African country of Zimbabwe. The ruling which led to the removal of the monopoly of the state in telecommunications is generally regarded as one of the key milestones, in opening the African telecommunications sector to private capital. Read More>>